Re: For the grub maintainers II
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:32:02PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu
> > does because of 491872
> > So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help the
> > os-prober maintainers to fix that bug.
>
> I don't know the specifics, but wouldn't it be possible for os-prober to
> create its own private mount name space (see clone(2), CLONE_NEWNS),
> and do the probing inside that name space? That way the desktop
> environments would not be able to intercept it.
Excellent idea, thanks; I'm looking into doing this now.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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